Vehicle-tire.



No. 840,503. PATENTED JAN. 8, 1907.

- A.H.MARKS.

VEHICLE TIR'E.

APPLIOATLION FILED MAR.1,1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 8, 1907.

Application filed March 1, 1905. semi No. 247,952.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it lmown thattI, ARTHUR H. Mamas, a citizen of the United States, residin at Air: r'on, in the county inf Summit and tate of Ohio, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Vehicle-Tires, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in vchicle tires; and the object is to provide a strong durable pneumatic tire or tire-casing especially ada ted for heavywork, so constructed that t e shock or strain produced by encountering obstructions will be distributed through out the entire tire and telly.

With the above object in "View the invenlion consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, particularly pointed out in the claim, and clearly illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l'is a side elevation, partly in section, of a tire-casing constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view of the same; Fig. 3,'a similar view of a modified construction; Fig. 4, also a similar view of another modified form of the invention; Fig. 5, a transverse sectional view of a third modification, and Fig. 6 a trans verse sectional view of a tire of the singleiube type embodying the form shown in Referring now more particularly to said drawings, 1 designates a tire-casin formed of rubber and reinforcing bands or iayers of fabric. Between the outermost layer of fabric and the outer coating of rubber is embedring, preferably of stee Thus two concentric rings are provided, the rim of the wheel being one and the ring 2 the other, so that upon encountering an obstruction an eccentric movement thereof is produced. The shock or strain" is thus distributed over the entire tire and vehicle-wheel.

The tire thus reduced is strong and durable owin. to, first, the distribution of the strain, as a ove set forth, and, second, to the prevention of the heating of the tread of the tire caused in the ordinary construction of tire by the continual flattening thereof at its point. of contact with the ground, this heating being one of the chief causes of disintegration of the ordinary tire. A tire constructed in accordance with my invention will have a practically rigid tread and there will be little or no'flatteni'ng thereof at the point of contact with the ground.

In the construction shown in Figs-3 two metal rings 3 are embedded in the tread, one on each side thereof, instead of the single flat ring illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 shows two metal rings 4 embedded in the trend and carrying a strip of woven wire 5, which is disposed therebetween. The

woven-wire strip increases the strength of the tire by the addition of its own resisting power. In Fig. -5 several fiat metal rings 6 are embedded in the tread, said ringsbeing placed side by side and in contact.

All of these several constructions may be applied to the single-tube tire 7 illustrated in Fig. 6, in connection with which I have shown a ring 8, similar to that disclosed in Fig. 1.

Having thus fully describedmy invention,

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O. S. HAR J. L. MARSHALL.

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